Stars and telescopes; a hand-book of popular astronomy founded on the 9th ed. of Lynn's Celestial motions (1901)
Todd, David P. (David Peck), 1855-1939, Lynn, William Thynne, 1835-1911 · Boston, Little, Brown · leaf 248
ystem has been estimated by Kleiber (on certain hypo-thetical conditions) to be nearly 6,000. — D. P. T. Comets 199 but it may be remarked that while the aphelion ofHalleys comet is at about the distance of Neptune,a comet with a period of three hundred years wouldpass far beyond this outer planet… … THE GREAT COMET OF 1S43 (On 2S//1 February, the day after its perihelion passagethis comet was distinctly visible to the ?iaked eye at noon.Its approach to the Sun 7uas the nearest ever made by anyknoiv7i cotnet, portions 0/ its coma being less than 50,000miles from the Suns surface. Its velocity…
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